After Liu Renyu explained the matter, he went up the stairs and went straight to the fourth floor.

At the staircase on the fourth floor, a young woman dressed in a peach-colored cloth narrow collar and long jacket, wearing a Zhaojun hat, willow eyebrows, Qiong nose, cherry mouth, pursed lips and smiled lightly, greeted her, bowed slightly, and then said softly: "Master Liu, please follow the slave family to the Peony Pavilion to sit for a while." ”

"Okay, please lead the way." Liu Renyu said very gentlemanly.

The young woman was so polite before she met, so she couldn't help but look at Liu Renyu twice.

After the woman glanced at Liu Renyu slightly, she withdrew her gaze, put her hands in her sleeves, and gently moved the lotus step to lead the way in front.

Liu Renyu followed behind the young woman, smelling the fragrant wind all the way, and came to the Peony Pavilion.

When she came to the door of the Peony Pavilion, the young woman stopped, stretched out her jade hand, gently pushed the door open, turned around and chuckled: "Master Liu, please." ”

"Okay." Liu Renyu agreed, and stepped into the room.

The furnishings of this Sihai Restaurant are no different from those of Jingbian Fort, they are all antique, full of books, and Liu Renyu did not look at the scenery in the house carefully, he walked to a table of eight immortals and sat down.

When the young woman saw Liu Renyu sitting down, she clapped her palm, and after a while, a maid entered the room with a porcelain cup and placed the cup of tea in front of Liu Renyu.

"Master Liu, this is tea from Jianning, Fujian, you must have drunk it in Jingbian Fort, you drink tea here first, if you have something to order, just call the slave family here." When the young woman had finished speaking, she bowed and went out.

"Wait a minute, I don't know your name yet, I have something to call you later, I don't know what to call you?" Liu Renyu didn't know what this woman's name was, so he asked.

"The slave family forgot to say it, Liu Ye called the slave family Wanru." After Wanru finished speaking, she smiled lightly, walked to the Peony Pavilion, closed the door, and left Liu Renyu alone in the room to taste the fragrant tea.

At this time, Liu Renyu rarely had time to sit alone, so he conceived a strategy for his next move.

According to his memory, Wang Jiayin will run back to Yansui from Hequ in Shanxi in March this year and go to Yan'an Mansion to kill and plunder, while Li Zicheng, who escaped by luck last time, will rebel again with Bu Mu and attack Mizhi.

According to Hong Chengchou's characteristics of using it to death as long as he doesn't die, he will definitely lead his troops to fight again, and when the time comes, he will have to face Wang Jiayin's more than 30,000 horses, and his own 1,000 people don't know if they can cope with it, after all, the number of enemies has gone up, and he is afraid of being outnumbered, but it is expected that Hong Chengchou will also send Guyuan's gang of soldiers to fight together, so there is no need to worry too much.

The next thing to do is to resettle the displaced people, then move the industrial manufacturing plant to Jingbianbao, expand production, produce more horse-drawn carriages and glass mirrors, vigorously promote the cultivation of potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes and other miscellaneous grains, and then launch the project of planting vegetables out of season.

In this way, you can earn enough silver, accumulate enough food, and when the silver is enough, and when the food is enough, you can expand the army, and there will be a situation where the chariot battalion, the mounted infantry battalion and the cavalry battalion stand side by side, and when the time is ripe, you can realize the dream when you crossed over, go out to fight the slaves, and kill the Jurchens.

Liu Renyu sketched out the blueprint for future development in his mind, and time was passing rapidly.

After about half an hour, Liu Renyu suddenly heard a knock on the door.

"Who?" Liu Renyu asked.

"My lord, the shopkeeper Du invited Lehu and Xiaosing, and asked the humble lord to take the time to see how the condition is, whether it is suitable? If it doesn't work, go and replace it with another batch. Outside the door, Liu Renjie replied.

"Okay, I'll come."

Liu Renyu agreed, and walked from the room, and followed Liu Renjie to the Jasmine Pavilion, another room on the fourth floor.

In that room, Shopkeeper Du and Wanru took 5 female musicians and a male singer to wait for Liu Renyu to identify and see if these people were suitable or not.

"Master Liu, the little one found 5 musicians and a small singer according to your instructions, you see if you can get into your eyes, if you are not satisfied, the villain will find it." When Shopkeeper Du saw Liu Renyu coming in, he asked with a chuckle.

"I'll take a look first."

After Liu Renyu finished talking to the shopkeeper Du, he carefully looked at the five musicians and Xiao Sing.

But it was said that the 5 Lehu, commonly known as prostitutes, were Fengyue women who did not sell their bodies, and they had waited for many dignitaries and nobles, and when they saw Liu Renyu's appearance at this time, they knew that this master was 'inspecting', because they all worked hard to show the most beautiful side of their family, otherwise once they were not selected by Liu Renyu, it would be a loss of face.

And Liu Renyu looked around and saw that these 5 women were not as dark as ordinary Northland women, but whiter than snow.

Then in terms of appearance, these people are all goose egg faces, willow eyebrows, phoenix eyes are long, naturally they are of the highest grade, and then they are not very gorgeous, they are all purple juan cloth jackets, with the same color Luo skirt, but fortunately, the cut is decent, and the effect on the body is not bad, as for the hair bun, it is the style of the TV in later generations, comb a cloud bun, with a golden hairpin on it, and gold beads on the ears.

Liu Renyu looked at it for a while, then nodded, and said to the shopkeeper Du with a smile: "These few happy households are good. ”

Shopkeeper Du was naturally overjoyed when he heard this, and those few happy households were secretly relieved when they saw that they were picked by the guests.

Then it was the little singer's turn.

This little song actually refers to a handsome man dressed up as a woman.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty forbade officials to engage in prostitution, and some officials had no hope of rising, and were not afraid of being attacked by officials, so they had no scruples about entering and leaving the Jiaofang Division and Yuefu, and some officials cherished their reputation and were afraid of being attacked by officials, so they came up with the idea of engaging some handsome young men as male pets.

For example, the famous Zuo Liangyu was the male pet of Hou Sui and ascended to the position.

The little singer Liu Renyu saw today, although he was a young man, was like those female musicians, applying grease and powder, drawing eyebrows and eyes, and even wearing clothes in a sullen peach, if it weren't for the fact that this person's hair bun was men's, Liu Renyu would almost think that it was a woman standing in front of him.

After reading the dressing, Liu Renyu looked at the face of this little singer again.

After he observed it carefully for a while, he felt that this Xiao Sing, if he changed into men's clothes, would be a Langjun, but if he was like now, he would be a standard pseudo-girl.

"Well, this little singer, I'm also very satisfied, shopkeeper Du, you are very good at doing things."

After Liu Renyu checked Lehu and Xiaosing, he felt that they were not bad, so he praised Du's shopkeeper.

"Master Liu, it's good if you're satisfied." When the shopkeeper Nadu was praised by Liu Renyu, he immediately raised his eyebrows and replied with a smile.

And when that little singer saw that he was selected, he was also secretly relieved.

"I invite you here today because I have a few distinguished guests to entertain, so I also ask you to take out your errands and serve a few distinguished guests, and I will naturally not be short of you."

"Master Liu, just rest assured, the slave family (little slave) will definitely greet your guests." Those few musicians and that little singer have been angry because of their low status, and now that a military master is so polite to them, he is naturally grateful and thinks that he must greet good guests.

"Well, very good, you will wait behind the screen of the Peony Pavilion first, with my high-five, as soon as I give me a high-five, you will come out to play music and sing." Liu Renyu commanded.

"Yes, Master Liu, the slave family (little slave) knows."

Those few musicians and the little singer said a word, and under the leadership of Wanru, they went in the direction of the Peony Pavilion.

"It's almost time, Renjie, follow me to the lobby and wait for a few generals."

After Liu Renyu finished speaking, he took the first step and walked down the stairs, while the shopkeeper Du and Liu Renjie followed Liu Renyu's steps and also walked down the stairs and walked to the lobby.

When Liu Renyu came to the lobby, the shopkeeper Du arranged a special seat for him, and then served a plate of watermelon seeds for him to kill time.

Liu Renyu waited, waited, waited until 6 o'clock in the evening, only to hear the sound of horses' hooves outside, he pondered that this should be those generals coming, so he said to Liu Renjie: "Go and see, is it General Liu who came with those generals." ”

Liu Renjie, who was about to fall asleep, heard the order of his general, and hurriedly got up and went outside the restaurant to find out.

Liu Renjie hurriedly ran to the door of the restaurant, looked around for about a few seconds, and then turned around and reported: "My lord, those generals are finally here." ”

"Damn, I really have to wait." Liu Renyu first slapped the watermelon seeds in his hand on the table, and then said to Liu Renjie: "Go, follow me to meet them." ”

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At the door of Sihai Restaurant, 5 rough men wearing mink hats, mink coats, and soap boots are turning over and dismounting.

When one of them got off the horse, he smiled and said to the other four men, "Generals, we are here for dinner today." ”

"Hey, Brother Wuguo, it still costs a little money to have a meal here, and Liu Renyu still has a little sincerity." One of the men looked at the plaque of the Four Seas Restaurant and said with emotion.

"Hehe, brothers, this Liu Renyu's sincerity is more than that, you will know when you go in to have a meal and wine." When Liu Wuguo said this, he smiled mysteriously at the four generals.

Liu Wuguo smiled like this, and the four generals roughly understood the meaning of this.

Everyone is a figure rolling in the officialdom, the so-called more sincerity, isn't it just that there are gifts to receive, this they know in their hearts, what they don't count in their hearts is the question of how much to give, what to give.

Just when the four generals were still guessing what gift Liu Renyu would give themselves, they suddenly heard a hearty laugh floating from the direction of the restaurant.

These four generals followed the direction of laughter and looked fixedly, but it was not who Liu Renyu was.

At this time, Liu Renyu had already seen Liu Wuguo coming with guests, so he hurriedly greeted him, bowed to the four generals and said, "Humble Liu Renyu, I have seen 5 generals. ”

When those generals saw that Liu Renyu was personally coming out to greet him, and he was very respectful, they all waved their hands and replied politely: "Liu Shoubei doesn't have to be polite. ”

Liu Wuguo saw that Liu Renyu and the four guerrilla generals were greeting each other, so he took the opportunity to introduce the four guerrilla generals to Liu Renyu.

"Renyu, these generals, you have all seen them, but they don't know each other, my brother is here to introduce them to you."

After Liu Wuguo finished speaking, he introduced them one by one:

"This is General Yang Jinrong Yang."

"General Yu Pengcheng."

"General Fang Lingshen."

"General Ma Zhan Kuima."

Liu Wuguo introduced them one by one, and Liu Renyu respectfully saluted one by one.

Several guerrilla generals saw that Liu Renyu had an excellent attitude and his vanity was greatly satisfied, but their attitude towards Liu Renyu was greatly improved, and they all felt that Liu Renyu actually had merits.

After Liu Renyu greeted several generals for a while, he made a gesture of invitation and said with a smile: "Several generals, please go up to the Peony Pavilion on the fourth floor." ”

"Okay," the generals agreed, and they took the first step, climbed the stairs, and walked towards the fourth floor, while Liu Renyu and Liu Wuguo lagged behind and followed closely.

These generals reached the staircase on the fourth floor, and they were led into the Peony Pavilion.

These generals sat down separately, and Liu Renyu let Wanru serve tea.

Wanru sent someone to send fragrant tea from Jianning, Fujian Province according to her words, and everyone took the tea first and drank it slowly.

"A few generals, this tea is a famous tea produced in Jianning, Fujian, even the palace drinks this kind of tea, how about you take a look at this tea?" Liu Renyu asked while drinking tea.

Everyone in the palace drinks this tea, how can it be bad. So several generals praised this tea for being really delicious.

When Liu Renyu heard this, he was secretly proud for a while, and then said aloud to the door: "Miss Wanru, please have wine and dinner." ”

"Yes, Master Liu."

There was a crisp answer outside the door. Then, the door creaked, and several handmaidens entered the room with plates and placed them all on the table.

While these maids were serving, the generals took a look at the dishes by the way, and they found that the dishes ordered by Liu Renyu this time were not only common dishes in the north, such as green onion cakes, but also dishes from the south of the Yangtze River, such as the famous Zhejiang dish Jiading chicken, which was full of all kinds of dishes.

At this time, these dishes are cooked and fried in sesame oil, and the aroma is overflowing, and several generals smell it, and they can't help but salivate and move their index fingers.

Liu Renyu saw that the dishes were almost there, so he shouted outside the door again: "The dishes are ready, the Guangdong rice is up, and our good wine in Shaanxi, Pu Taochun." ”

Outside the door, there was another answer, and a maid carried a plate and put the poached rice and Pu Taochun on the table.

Liu Renyu saw that the wine and food were all ready, so he picked up the chopsticks and said to several generals: "Several generals, the wine and food are all ready, then let's start the banquet." ”

"Hey, okay, let's get started." Several generals glanced at each other, then picked up chopsticks and feasted.

Liu Renyu waited for a few generals to eat for a while, then picked up a bowl of wine, stood up and said aloud to the generals: "Several generals, when they were the last time they were the kings of Qin, they were fledgling and did not understand the world, and they offended several generals, and asked several generals to atone for their crimes. ”

Those generals saw Liu Renyu talk about this, so everyone drank a bowl of wine, even if this Liang Zi was revealed, so they all took the wine, stood up, and said something like 'We Lao Tzu rushed like you when we were young', 'After drinking this bowl of wine, this matter will end here', 'They are all martial artists, let's not mention the old past' and so on.

Liu Renyu listened to the words of several generals for a while, and then said: "Okay, I have drunk this bowl of wine with a few generals, and I will never mention the past again. ”

"Okay, let's do this bowl of wine, when you get to Yulin, don't always follow Liu Wuguo's gang, you can come and sit here if you have time."

"Okay, I know it." After Liu Renyu finished speaking, he drank all the wine in the bowl.

The generals also drank the bowl in one gulp.

Everyone drank it and praised it: "Good wine." ”

After drinking, everyone sat down to eat, and Liu Renyu suddenly said: "There is wine and meat, but there is no singing and dancing, it is really not beautiful." ”

After he finished saying this, he slapped his palms twice.

Those musicians and singers who had been hiding behind the screen in advance turned out from behind the screen and stood opposite the table of the Eight Immortals, playing and playing folk tunes.

Those generals are all military generals, and they are all masters who do not lack hormones, and at this time, seeing a few beauties and a handsome little singing in front of their eyes, the mood for eating is particularly better.

And Liu Renyu also took the opportunity to take turns toasting with several generals, and everyone drank happily.

After a musician and the little singer finished singing two tunes, Liu Renyu shouted outside the door: "Renjie, come in, and give the souvenirs of our Jingbian Fort to a few generals." ”

Those generals heard that Liu Renyu was going to send souvenirs, and knew that today's highlight was coming, so they all cheered up, planning to see what the so-called souvenirs were?

When Liu Renjie entered the room, he put the four exquisite bags in front of the four generals in turn, and then turned around and exited the room.

Liu Renyu saw Liu Renjie deliver the gift, so he chuckled and said: "A few generals, these are my Jingbian Fort's native products, and they are not worth much, but they are a thousand miles away, and the courtesy is light and affectionate, and I ask a few generals not to dislike them." ”

When several generals heard this, it stands to reason that they should put away the bag and take it back to look at it, but Fang Lingshen somehow picked up the bag in front of him and opened it directly, took it out and looked at it, and the room was suddenly full of glory.

"Oops, it's a night pearl, it's very valuable, I'm afraid it will cost more than 1,000 taels to buy it." Fang Lingshen looked at the night pearl in his hand, and his mouth was crooked when he smiled.

When the other generals saw Fang Lingshen's virtue, they scolded him for his ugly appearance, but they were secretly happy.

After all, what Fang Lingshen has in his hand is the Night Pearl, and what they have in their hands will definitely not be bad.

So these generals were happy, and they all praised Liu Renyu and said: "Liu Shoubei, you have a future in your future life, you can fight and be a man, you will definitely rise to prominence in the future." ”

Liu Wuguo saw that several of his robes were praising Liu Renyu, so he casually echoed: "Brother, you are right, Hong Junmen is very fond of our Renyu virtuous brother, and his old man specially took the word 'invincible' for Renyu virtuous brother as a table word. ”

"Seriously!?" Several generals were amazed.

"Don't you know?" Liu Wuguo said in surprise.

"I don't know, no one told us about it." The generals were still stunned.

"Don't you know now." Liu Wuguo chuckled.

"Oh, Renyu, you have a future in this offspring." Those generals heard that Hong Chengchou valued Liu Renyu very much, and he already had a good impression of Liu Renyu, but now this favor has increased exponentially.

The most straightforward Fang Lingshen simply called out 'Brother Liu Xian'.

At this point, Liu Renyu felt that it was time to serve the finale dish to sublimate the atmosphere of the banquet, so he shouted outside the door again: "The famous dish 'Fire Goose' and 'Sheep Cut Alive'." ”

After a while, he brought ingredients and utensils to make food, and taking advantage of this opportunity, Liu Renyu said to Lehu and Xiaosing: "You all go and accompany a few generals, let them eat and drink well, they are happy, let's give each of you a hundred taels of silver." ”

Those few musicians and the little singer heard that they could pay a hundred taels of silver for a meal with the guests, and they were like hungry tigers pounced on food, grabbing a few generals to throw themselves into their arms, smiling and laughing, Wu Nong whispered softly, and coaxed a few generals to drink.

And those generals took the opportunity to rub and rub them, and only those who made the musicians were crimson and delicate. gasping again and again, so the room was full of spring.

In this way, under Liu Renyu's careful arrangement, these generals ate this sumptuous meal today, received a valuable gift, and suddenly changed their bilateral relationship with Liu Renyu from mutual hostility to superficial intimacy.

And Liu Renyu looked at the appearance of these generals, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh: "You guys are like this, no wonder you can't win the war." ”